# ISR part two: How our membership approach helps to preserve the integrity of the scholarly record - Crossref

**URL:** <https://community.crossref.org/t/isr-part-two-how-our-membership-approach-helps-to-preserve-the-integrity-of-the-scholarly-record-crossref/3100>\
**Category:** Integrity of the Scholarly Record (ISR)\
**Tags:** blog, research-integrity\
**Created:** [8 November 2022 12:54 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/isr-part-two-how-our-membership-approach-helps-to-preserve-the-integrity-of-the-scholarly-record-crossref/3100 "2022-11-08T12:54:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Crossref](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.crossref.org/crossref/32/31_2.png) [@Crossref](https://community.crossref.org/u/Crossref)\
**Post date:** [8 November 2022 12:54 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/isr-part-two-how-our-membership-approach-helps-to-preserve-the-integrity-of-the-scholarly-record-crossref/3100/1 "2022-11-08T12:54:56Z")

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In [part one](https://www.crossref.org/blog/isr-part-one-what-is-our-role-in-preserving-the-integrity-of-the-scholarly-record//) of our series on the Integrity of the Scholarly Record (ISR), we talked about how the metadata that our members register with us helps to preserve the integrity of the record, and in particular how ’trust signals’ in the metadata, combined with relationships and context, can help the community assess the work.&nbsp;

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://www.crossref.org/blog/isr-part-two-how-our-membership-approach-helps-to-preserve-the-integrity-of-the-scholarly-record/](https://www.crossref.org/blog/isr-part-two-how-our-membership-approach-helps-to-preserve-the-integrity-of-the-scholarly-record/)

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**Author:** ![Ginny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.crossref.org/ginny/32/1694_2.png) [@Ginny](https://community.crossref.org/u/Ginny)\
**Post date:** [20 November 2022 14:04 UTC](https://community.crossref.org/t/isr-part-two-how-our-membership-approach-helps-to-preserve-the-integrity-of-the-scholarly-record-crossref/3100/2 "2022-11-20T14:04:27Z")

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